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October 26,
2004
Kathleen Christison
Why
I Liked Thomas Friedman's Latest Column Before I Didn't
October 25,
2004
Ralph Nader
Letter
from a Minnesota Highway
Werther
West
Texas Wahabbism
Dave Zirin
Boston's Killer Cops: Death of a Fan
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: Oregon Revokes Dr. Leveque's License
Omar Barghouti
Executing Another Child in Rafah
William J. Nottingham
Lori Berenson's Story
John Chuckman
A Foolish Consistency
Uri Avnery
On
the Road to Civil War
October 22
/ 24, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
You
Can't Blame Nader for This
Rev. William Alberts
On Bended Knee: Faith-Based Deceptions
Willliam A.
Cook
Killing for Christ
Saul Landau
George W. Bush: a Man of His Words?
Bill Quigley
I Held the Bullet in My Palm: Masked Haitian Police Shoot Children
While Arresting Priest
Christopher Brauchli
Seal It With a Frown: What Compassionate Conservativism Really
Means
William S.
Lind
Fallujah and the Moral Level of War
Sharon Smith
Guilt Trippers for Kerry
Greg Bates
Kerrynomics: "Hurt the Ones Who Vote for Us"
Justin E.H. Smith
Is Lesser Evilism a Compromise with Evil?
Rebecca Evans
Tarnished Legacy: Pinochet and the Chilean Military
Mike Whitney
Al Hurra TV: the Second Invasion
M. Junaid Alam
Purchasing Individuality in America
David Krieger
Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Examining the Policies of Bush and
Kerry
David J. Ledermann
The Emperor's New Crumbs
Lawrence Reichard
Same Old FBI Story
Website of
the Weekend
Lie Girls: the Real Coalition of the Willling
October 21,
2004
Ben Tripp
The
Undecided Voter Examined
Joshua Frank
Kerry
and the Environment:
It's Not Easy Pretending to be Green
Stan Cox
What
the Left Doesn't Get About Small Businesses
Bill Martinez
State
Depart and Cuban Visas: Only Anti-Castro Agitators Need Apply
Mark Engler
The War and Globalization
Lina Britto
and Lucia Suarez
Bolivia:
a Year After the October Insurrection
Website of the Day
Two Pampered Children of Wealth
October 20,
2004
Yitzhak Laor
"Did
You Two Squabble?": a Bullet Fired for Every Palestinian
Child
Jason Leopold
Sinclair
Broadcasting's Air War: a Long History of Journalistic Deception
Jesse Sharkey
A
Teacher's Account of How Military Recruiters Prey on High School
Students
Col. Dan Smith
Choking
Free Speech About the Draft
Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
Using My Religion
David Vest
If
Bush Wins, Blame Me
Jack Random
The Jackson 17: Reflections on a Mutiny
Ron Jacobs
Time
to Kick It Up a Notch
James Brittain
Plan Patriota and the FARC: a Change in the Countryside?
Christopher
Dols
Bombing Madison: Michael Moore's Fright Fest
Dave Lindorff
First They Came for the Nurses...
Website of
the Day
Banana Republican Catalogue
October 19,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
Party
Favors: the Political Business of Terry McAuliffe
Jeff Taylor
Confessions
of a Swing State Voter
Matt Vidal
American
Myopia: "More Money in Your Pocket"
Victor Kattan
"It's Not Who You're Against; It's Who You're For":
Palestine Takes Center Stage At Euro Social Forum
William Loren
Katz
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sean Carter
O'Reilly Should Shut Up About Extortion Claiims
CounterPunch Wire
Who's Really in Bed with Republican Funders: Kerry or Nader?
October 18,
2004
Saul Landau
Facts
and Lies; Slogans and Truth
Dave Lindorff
Bulletin
on the Bush Bulge
Diane Christian
Sheep
and Goats: On the Language of Goodness
Greg Bates / Dave Lindorff
Betting on War: a Wager on the Fallout of a Kerry Presidency
Uri Avnery
Ariel
Sharon's Philosophy
Peter LaVenia
Leaving the Greens So Soon? a Response to Josh Frank
Mike Whitney
O'Reilly at the Whipping Post
Elaine Cassel
The Other War: Civil Liberties Three Years After 9/11
October 16
/ 17, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
The
Free Speech Movement and Howard Stern
Leslie Brill
Unmerciful Judge, Merry Executioners: the Death Penalty as the
True Measure of Bush's Character
Jules Rabin
Reckoning Deaths in an Agitated World
Dave Lindorff
About the Bush Bulge: Was There a Pucker in That Jacket or Was
the President Just Glad to be There?
Peter Linebaugh
Judging Judges: a Few Pages from The Mirror of Justices
Gary Leupp
Iran and Syria: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire
M. Shahid Alam
America, Imagine This!
Ron Jacobs
Trying to Cross Lake Champlain
Fred Gardner
The Flu Vaccine Question: How Bush Blew It
Jenna Orkin
The Toxic Legacy of 9/11
Dave Zirin
Name the DC Baseball Team: Contest Results
David Hamilton
Alone and Exposed: Bush as a Strong Leader?
Ralph Nader
Criticizing Israel is Not Anti-Semitism
Doug Giebel
Thinking the Unthinkable
Mark Engler
Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick Cheney's El Salvador
Derek Tyner
Blacks Didn't Get the Vote by Voting: an Interview With Clarence
Thomas on the Million Worker March
Evan Jones
Gimme That Ole Time Religion: Cash and "The Mind of the
South"
Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Klipschutz and Albert
Website of
the Weekend
No More Bush Girls
October 15,
2004
Paul Craig
Roberts
Where
Did These "Conservatives" Come From?: The Brownshirting
of America
Laura Carlsen
Wal-Mart
vs. the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
Greg Bates
Empire of Insanity: Kerry's Iraq Troop Numbers
Michael Donnelly
News from a Swing State: Does Anyone Here Have a Spine?
Katherine Lahey
The Venezuelan "Threat": Why Do Kerry and Bush Fear
Hugo Chavez?
Robert Jensen
/ Pat Youngblood
Election Day Fears
Leah Caldwell
From
Supermax to Abu Ghraib: the Masterminds of Torture and Abuse
Website of
the Day
An Anti-Billionaire Policy? Why That Would Be Economic Racism
October 14,
2004
Darcy Richardson
The
Other Progressive Candidate: the Lonely Crusade of Walt Brown
Willliam A.
Cook
Turning
Myths into Truth
Laura Santina
Water, Women and War
Evelyn Pringle
Free Speech Banned by Big Pharma: What You Can't Say About Drug
Importation
Alan Farago
Lessons
from Nature
Rep. Maxine Waters
A Letter to Colin Powell on Haiti
Nicole Colson
Maimed
for Oil and Empire
October 13,
2004
Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton and Bill Quigley
Aftermath
of a Coup: The Other Disaster in Haiti
Sharon Smith
Barak
O-Bomb-a?: Democrats Target Iran
Christopher Brauchli
God and the Bush Administration
Mike Whitney
The Real Meaning of the Hamdi Case
Paul de Rooij
Amnesty
International: a False Beacon?
Website of
the Day
Operation
Truth
October 12,
2004
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Indian
Country"
Greg Bates
The Year of Voting Dangerously: a Survey Request of Nader Voters
in Swing States
Steven Conn
Progressives as Pawns: Kerry's War on Nader
Jason Leopold
Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon Billions from
UN Oil-for-Food Program
Security Scholars
for a Sensible Foreign Policy
Time for a Change of Course
Timothy J. Freeman
Dying for a Mistake
Pierre Tristam
Deconstructing Bush
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The 2nd Debate: the Blurring of Act and Audience
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
Israel as Sideshow
Website of the Day
John Kerry's Personal Off-Shore Tax Shelters
October 11,
2004
Robert Fisk
Iraq:
Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises
Kevin Pina
The
Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti
Patrick Gavin
Rethinking
Columbus Day
Chris Floyd
Tribes with Flags in the New Afghanistan
Daniel Wolff
Radioactive Money: Entergy, Political Cash and America's Most
Dangerous Nuclear Plant
Walter Brasch
The Only Ones Who Believe Saddam Had WMDs are Bush, Cheney...and
40% of All Americans
Mike Whitney
The Phony Afghan Elections: Ballot of the Disappearing Ink
Ari Shavit
"He Talks to Condi Rice Every Day": an Interview with
Sharon's Lawyer
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Debates and the Big Lie
Website of the Day
Dylan's Greatest Recording?
October 9 /
10, 2004
Alexander Cockburn
"There
Are No Innocents"
Paul de Rooij
Northern Ireland is Still the Issue: a Conversation with Gerry
Adams
M. Shahid Alam
Making Sense of Our Times
Laura Carlsen
Protest and Populism in Latin America
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: ASA Goes to Court
Col. Dan Smith
Bush's Credibility Gap
Paul Craig
Roberts
Faith-Based Economics
Greg Bates
What If Nader Critics Get What They Demand?
Joshua Frank
Cobb, the Greens and the Collapse of the Left
Felice Pace
Wilderness, Politics and the Oligarchy: How the Pew Charitable
Trust is Smothering the Grassroots Environmental Movement
Walter A. Davis
Of Pynchon, Thanatos and Depleted Uranium
William A.
Cook
The Agony of Colin Powell
Phyllis Pollack
Twas No Crank Call Love Affair: London Calling, 25 Years Later
Poets' Basement
Klipschutz, Albert, Ford
Website of the Weekend
Abu Ghraib: the Taguba Annexes
October 8,
2004
Jennifer Loewenstein
The
Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Moshe Adler
Edwards' Gambit: He Hoped No One Would Notice the Similarities
David Swanson
Media Blackout: Press Continues to Ignore Labor's Opposition
to Iraq War
Dave Zirin
CounterPunch Contest: Let's Name the New DC Baseball Team!
Rep. Ron Paul
The Draft is a Form of Slavery
William S. Lind
Keeping Our SA Up
Samar Assad
Kerry v. Bush: No Difference When It Comes to Israel / Palestine
Jim Ingalls
and Sonali Kolhatkar
The Elections in Afghanistan
October 7,
2004
Dave Lindorff
All
Out of Volunteers: A Draft is in the Air
Masha Hamilton
Fear in Kandahar
Christopher
Brauchli
Master of Corruption: the Ripening Scandals of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Is There Still Time to Impeach Bush?
Bruce K. Gagnon
Bombing the Panhandle: Fighting the Pentagon in Rural Florida
Meredith Kolodner
Where
is the Urgency?: The Anti-War Movement's Election Year Challenge
October 6,
2004
Jeffrey St.
Clair
"Please,
Dude, Can I Take Them Out?": Targeting Civilians in Fallujah
Ron Jacobs
Going
Nuclear: the Ghost of Edward Teller Lives
Michael Colby
The National Flip-Flop: Suddenly Bush is Unfit to Lead?
Tarif Abboushi
More of the Same: Israel Wins the Debates
Matthew Behrens
Canadian Firms Profit from Iraqi Blood
Mike Whitney
Rethinking WMDs
John Pilger
Stealing Diego Garcia
Ben Tripp
Kerry's "Triumph"
Kevin McKiernan
Cheney's Poison Lab: Wrong Time, Wrong Target
Patrick Cockburn
Elections
Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq
Website of the Day
Is There an Islamic Problem?
October 5,
2004
Anthony Loewenstein
Rupert
Murdoch and the Marginals: "Personally Creating Outcomes"
Mark Clinton
and Tony Udell
The
Suicide of an Iraq War Veteran
Greg Bates
Trading
Idiots: an Open Letter to Eric Alterman
Dave Lindorff
What's
the Frequency, Karl?
Norm Dixon
Why Washington Won't Save Darfur Villagers
Larry Kearney
God Talk and Burning Children
Bill Linville
Dirty Politics in the Land of "Clean" Government
Gary Leupp
What
Edwards Should Ask Cheney
Website of
the Day
A Guide to Halliburton for Tonight's Debate
October 4,
2004
Diane Christian
The
Gates of Hell
Joshua Frank
An Interview with David Cobb
Doug Giebel
Incurious George: What If Bush Didn't Lie?
John Chuckman
Strange Victory: Sen. Obvious and the Pathetic Lump
Ramzy Baroud
Reverse the Picture: Anatomy of a Palestinian Outrage
Julia Stein
Remembering Mario Savio and the FSM
Sean Donahue
Outsourcing
Terror: Kerry and Special Forces
Website of
the Day
Mapping
Mt. St. Helens as She Rocks
October 2 /
3. 2004
Paul Wright
John
Kerry on Criminal Justice
Kathleen and Bill Christison
An Exchange with Israeli Historian Bennie Morris
Kathie Helmkamp
My Son Trent: a Marine Who Doesn't Want to Kill
Phillip Cryan
Indigenous Mobilization in Colombia
Lenni Brenner
The First Ex-Catholic Saint: Memories of Mario Savio
Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: In Case You Missed "Montel"
Ron Jacobs
It Did Happen Here: When Neo-Nazis Terrorized Olympia
Ben Tripp
Sticker Shock
William S.
Lind
The Grand Illusion: Iraqi Security Forces
Dave Zirin
The Swindle of the Century: Baseball Comes to DC
Dave Lindorff
Lies from the Great Debate
Luscon Pierre-Charles
Haiti's Elections: a High-Tech Sham is Underway
Zoe Moskovitz
& Sasha Kramer
Separating Lies from Truth About Haiti
Nelson P. Valdes
Habana Night vs. Latin American Scholars in Vegas: 61 Banned
Cuban Academics
Alan Farago
The "Ownership Society" and the End of the Everglades
Nancy Haley
What is the Historical Jesus Trying to Tell Us?
Alex Billet
Long Live The Clash: London Still Calling After 25 Years
Steve Fesenmaier
Save and Burn: The War on Libraries
Poets' Basement
Smith, Holt, Albert
October 1,
2004
Steve Breyman
Kerry's
Missed Opportunities
Rose Gentle
My
Son Died for a Lie
Lee Sustar
Iran
in the Crosshairs
Ralph Nader
What
We Didn't Hear at the Debate: Where's the Exit Strategy?
Walter Andrews
We Are Less Secure Now Than Ever
Mike Whitney
Pandora's
Government
Mickey Z.
Debate
This
Saul Landau
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Steve
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October 26, 2004
God Told Him
There Would be No Casualties
The
Religion of George W. Bush
By
DOUG GIEBEL
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?"
ASSIGNMENT:
If you support the
"war" in Iraq:
(a) excepting yourself,
choose five people from your immediate family and/or from among
your best friends whom you would be willing to "sacrifice"
(i.e., kill) in order to depose Saddam Hussein;
(b) tell them personally
of your decision.
It is extremely difficult to challenge
someone regarding the sincerity of his or her religious beliefs.
How does one presume to "know the contents of another's
heart," let alone one's own?
In the case of President George
W. Bush, the mainstream press has deliberately avoided an in-depth
discussion of whether the "religion" of President Bush
is sincere, the general assumption being that it is sincere.
Both Bob Woodward and Ron Suskind, in their various discussions,
seem convinced that the Religious Mr. Bush is truly a religious
man, that his "born again" status is legitimate, that
when he speaks of his faith, he speaks from his heart.
Can we ever know for sure?
Perhaps not, but one way to examine the "heart" of
President Bush is to examine his words and deeds, which would
surely seem to be extensions of his One True Self. In this arena,
George W. Bush has stated that Jesus is his favorite philosopher,
and according to Bob Woodward, "there's a higher Father
that I appeal to."
With these seemingly-unquestioned
(and unquestionable?) statements in mind, one can surely ask
which of the teachings of Jesus, which parts of the Jesus "philosophy"
has George W. Bush has followed during his rapid political rise,
because seldom does the president justify his words and deeds
by citing the teachings of Jesus.
It is well known that George
W. Bush (and indeed the Bush family) is not above holding a petty
grudge. It is no secret that George W. Bush possesses a nasty
temperament, that he does not appreciate being contradicted or
challenged, and that his vocabulary employs the "f"
word with considerable frequency. During the 2000 campaign, when
he spotted then New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, he called
Clymer an "asshole." Which of the teachings of Jesus
justify such juvenile behavior?
The nation's corporate media
are reluctant (or afraid) to say that President Bush "lied"
in the lead-up to his war-of-choice in Iraq, although there was
no such reservation about calling Bill Clinton a liar when Clinton
lied to the public. Does George W. Bush get a pass because he
is a self-declared "religious" man and a chosen instrument
of his God? As more and more evidence emerges to show how false
reasons were given to justify invading and appropriating Iraq,
still the major media avoid the "l" word. When Colin
Powell, whose own top experts on weapons of mass destruction
advised him otherwise, went before the world at the United Nations
and made false statements about Iraq's WMD capability, he lied.
He was not relying on "the best intelligence" available
to the administration, he was relying on false intelligence,
cherry-picked intelligence, intelligence that was not the least
bit intelligent in the first place.
With a sense of concerned amazement,
the Rev. Pat Robertson recently told CNN that President George
W. Bush believed there would be no casualties during the invasion
and occupation of Iraq. President Bush, through spokespeople,
now says he can't recall making the statement or that Pat Robertson
is not telling the truth. (Once when this writer was deposing
a defendant, her lawyer openly coached her, "If you don't
recall, just say you don't recall," and the witness dutifully
echoed, "I don't recall . . .") Despite being called
a liar by Bush surrogates, Pat Robertson still intends to vote
for the president, apparently because the president is a man
"of God." Is God the Supreme Hypocrite, or what?
If George W. Bush truly said
there would be no casualties resulting from his war of choice,
it was a belief so thoughtless and naive (and so alarming) as
to disqualify him from serving as the nation's Commander-in-Chief.
One presumes the course of history and the facts emerging from
the undeclared "war" in Iraq have enlightened the president,
but given the president's unwillingness to even consider the
errors of his ways, it is only a presumption.
A separate aspect of the president's
rosy "no casualties" statement, however has not received
appropriate attention. During this same period, while selling
his rationale for a U.S. takeover of Iraq, President Bush was
alarming the nation, including so-called "sophisticated"
members of congress, claiming Saddam Hussein was possessed of
and was ready to use weapons of mass destruction capable of killing
millions of human beings. These weapons, the world was assured,
would surely be used against the United States and others. Only
by taking out Saddam would the world be safe.
Here's the conflict: If George
W. Bush truly believed Saddam had WMD enough to kill millions,
he might have (must have) assumed Saddam would use those weapons
against an invading force. Invasion promoters spread a story
about a mythological "Red Zone" near Baghdad where
WMD would surely be employed to turn by the U.S. troops. Yet
if President Bush believed there would be "no casualties,"
then he must have known (would have known) the fabled WMD did
not in fact exist.
Never having served in congress,
President Bush came into the highest office in the land as a
relative newcomer to politics, to the problems of foreign policy
and foreign relations (apart from Mexico), to the demands imposed
on one who is supreme commander of the nation's military might.
According to his many on-the-record statements regarding the
invasion, President Bush acted not after wrestling with the intellectual
demands surrounding the issue, but by following his "gut"
instinct as guided by prayer. (Conveniently, this president's
faith in himself as a messenger of God means that President Bush
can always blame God when the Bush-gut actions end in disaster.)
Seldom if ever does President
Bush tell us that he primarily relies on the advice supplied
to him by his closest advisors such as Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez
or Condoleeza Rice who exist not merely as Yes Men and Women
who grovel before the president and his Godly presence. If Karl
Rove is indeed a political "genius," it is demonstrated
by his deliberate employment of religion as the ultimate "untouchable"
political reality. Questioning the sincerity of his man's "faith"
is out of bounds. One proceeds at one's peril.
Prior to the publication of
her valuable best-selling expose "The Family," this
writer described to Kitty Kelley his analysis of George W. Bush
regarding intellectual thought, and I'll expand on that brief
discussion here. President Bush dismisses the rigorous employment
of intellect because, as a middling student, he has always viewed
teachers and professors with a measure of discomfort and contempt.
They expected more of him than he was willing or able to give.
At prep school and later at Yale, George W. Bush was surrounded
by peers with far more interest in discussion and analysis than
he cared about. Instead, the future president relied on his viciously-waspish
"wit," often employed to take advantage of the weaknesses
of others, as Gary Trudeau affirmed in an interview with Charlie
Rose.
In his youth, George W. Bush
was out to have a good time, not to suffer the mental torment
of contemplation, but to enjoy the mentally-stimulating benefits
of drugs, alcohol, sex and demeaning power over others. "Have
a ball!" The too-solemn professors and other (slur) "intellectuals"
were irritants, as summed up nicely by a note I recently received
from a reader of one of my earlier columns who wrote, "
I find that often the 'intellectuals' make situations much more
complicated than they actually are so that they can justify their
time. I am a skeptic of Academia. I have studied your major areas
with the exception of education; I'm not impressed. Over analyzing
often leaves one worse off."
When George W. Bush at mid-life
finally was forced to "see the light," he did not complicate
his thought processes by immersing himself in intellectual pursuits.
Instead, he tells us he underwent a religious "born again"
transformation that, once more, did not require him to justify
(waste) time thinking deeply about the essential issues involving
the world and humankind. Just as he found acceptance among the
party-time social set, so he found new and apparently-profound
acceptance among the evangelical born-again multitudes who welcomed
him with open arms. They knew, as it were, "his heart."
But did they really?
When called upon to force the
nation into his chosen "war" to appropriate the soverign
nation of Iraq, George W. Bush did not examine the issues with
over-analysis. Had he done so, he would have had to struggle
with the many expert opinions and evidence that ran contrary
to his "gut" reactions and, more important, the "advice"
given to him by manipulative, agenda-driven ideological colleagues
who knew what an indolent "patsy" they had in their
chosen president.
Accepting the serious matters
of sending men and women into a "war," of spending
the nation's money and blood, are simplified when one can duck
the hard work of authentic analysis and rely instead on the mentally-lazy
process of "faith" as a guide to action. If George
W. Bush is truly as thoughtless as he increasingly appears to
be, then he not only has faith in his version of "God"
and "Jesus," but also faith in the axis of Rove, Rice,
Rumsfeld and their conspiratorial colleagues.
As evidence continues to emerge
on the lead-up to war and in the light of its grimly-gruesome
aftermath, George W. Bush can cynically dismiss whatever may
be discomforting by claiming it is all "God's will."
At the same time, he can count on the nation's popular media
to back him up, because the popular media, too, is "not
impressed" with discomforting analysis, echoing the notion,
"Over analyzing often leaves one worse off." And one
dare not question publicly the "conversion" of George
W. Bush nor his wisdom in pushing the nation into what was (obviously
now) a totally-unnecessary war.
Guided by Svengali Karl Rove,
President George W. Bush and his colleagues knew before invading
Iraq there were no weapons of mass destruction. They knew conquering
the Iraqi military would not amount to the proverbial hill of
beans. Devoid of empathy, our National Cabal may give lip service
to but cares little or nothing about the sacrifices being made
by American troops, by Iraqis, by families here at home -- or
by any but themselves. Where in the "philosophy" of
Jesus are the words to support the lies, abusive and arrogant
actions, the gross hubris of President George W. Bush and his
followers?
Doug Giebel, writer and analyst, lives in Big
Sandy, Montana. He welcomes comments at dougcatz@ttc-cmc.net
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